Hope is necessary in every condition.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.